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Sorry, I added the bit about the Twist deformation as opposed to editing the path vertices with the Path/Move Vertex tool which sometimes causes problems. As far as aligning the map, are you using the Mapping option when you loft the film strips? (See page 6-99.) If so, there should be no problem; if not, check it out. With the right calculations, you should be able to create a relatively short, looping flic consisting of a single "frame" of film moving once past the frame-sized window. (This is confusing using the word "frame" to mean a celluloid file frame and not an animation frame.) Anyway, once you've got this looping flic, you can tile it along the length of your lofted film strip using the Mapping parameters. It's a little frustrating getting it right, but I know it can be done because I did something like it as an experiment where I had what looked like a stream of arrows traveling along a helix object. The flic for the texture map was the size of one arrow and as many frames as was necessary to scroll the arrow once. Hope this helps. If it doesn't, you're on your own. I'm off to Sigraph in about an hour, so don't bother replying to this. – Jack